SUZANNE TREISTER 

Curated by Tania Nasielski

HEXEN 2039 is a multi-venue project taking place across London between November 2006 and February 2007.

Nov 4 - Dec 16 CHELSEA Space
16 John Islip St, London, SW1P 4JU
Archives - Drawings

Private view: Tuesday Nov 7, 6 - 8.30pm

Nov-Dec Science Museum London
Cabinet H30, 5th Floor

Nov 9th 6-8pm Warburg Institute
Woburn Sq, London WC1H OAB
Screening

British Museum London
Case 20, Enlightenment Room

Through November Ognisko Polskie
55 Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2PN
Intervention

Feb 2007 Dana Centre, London
science of spying programme

'HEXEN 2039 new military-occult technologies for psychological warfare’
released by Black Dog Publishing
http://www.bdpworld.com/

http://www.hexen2039.net/

HEXEN 2039 charts Brodsky’s para scientific research towards the development of new mind control technologies for the British Military through a series of drawings and diagrams, a video, website and site-specific interventions. This complex body of work uncovers links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl, witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, behaviour control experiments of the US Army and recent practices of its Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP) and new research in contemporary neuroscience.

"HEXEN 2039 offers us an inverted, riotous version of a sociopolitical history that stands in kaleidoscopic opposition to the homogenised, narrow flatland of the capitalist march forward. Treister’s constructions belie a deeper mission: to explore how we make sense of history and the politics of war." (Jane D. Marsching)

In 1995 artist Suzanne Treister created the fictional alter ego Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional time traveller who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality (IMATI) in the twenty-first century. Through Brodsky, Treister explores issues of history, global politics, religion, popular culture, sexuality, science, technology, the military and theories of the future.

The Rosalind Brodsky project has been described by Art in America as "One of the most sustained fantasy trips of contemporary art".

Suzanne Treister studied in London at St Martin’s and Chelsea Schools of Art and currently lives and works in London and Berlin. Treister has shown internationally since 1981. Recent exhibitions include: 'Operation Swanlake’ at Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana; Magazin4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz; '(The World May Be) Fantastic’, 2002 Biennale of Sydney; 'Don't Call it Performance’, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid and El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA.

For further information please contact Tania Nasielski: +44(0)7966471319
Email: info@hexen2039.net  Online information and images at: http://www.hexen2039.net/